Just built a new system and my plan was to use my existing SSD boot drive from my old build. After successful POST I've managed to boot into Windows a handful of times but I was experiencing instability and BSODs. Then I started having trouble booting period. I was getting crashes, freezes and BSODs during Windows boot. All with stock settings, no overclock, using XMP memory settings and even underclocking my memory to DDR3 1600.

At first I thought maybe a bad DIMM so I ran memtest individually on each module, and got no errors. Tried booting each memory module individually and still had the same problems. Then I noticed how I was also having issues with my SSD not showing up in the UEFI consistently. I figured that it must be an SSD issue - since it was only showing up in UEFI intermittently with each POST.

After searching around I understand that this SSD problem seems to be universal on all X87 boards. Older SATA II SSDs with Sandforce controllers are apparently not compatible with Haswell's strict SATA compliance rules. Wondering who else is having this problem, are there any workarounds? Can a BIOS update solve this or does it look like I'm stuck buying a new SSD? Already tried using different SATA ports, power connector, enabling/disabling AHCI, Aggressive LPM setting, Fast Boot on/off, all with no success.

Specs:
X87 Hero
4770k
Gskill Trident 2400 DDR3 x 32gb
OCZ Vertex 2 120gb SSD
Corsair 750w PSU